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John Ippolito
05-05-2011, 11:40 AM
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
D300 17-55 2.8 @ 40mm, ISO 200, f22, 1/6 sec, spirit level, saved at 45 quality
Dave Mills
05-05-2011, 11:45 AM
Hi John, Great light along with an interesting composition. I like the way the foreground peak is taking your eye into the scene. I also like the fact you offset the group of hills and minimalized an uninteresting sky.
Kaushik Balakumar
05-06-2011, 11:20 AM
Beautiful image John. Neatly composed frame with some lovely warm light. Might make an interesting B&W IMO.
dankearl
05-06-2011, 11:14 PM
Stark and very well done.
I would almost lower the saturation (not that it is too saturated), to give it an even more desolate look.
Rachel Hollander
05-07-2011, 07:52 AM
John - beautifully seen and captured. I really like the comp and the interplay of shadows and light.
TFS,
Rachel
Andrew McLachlan
05-07-2011, 08:33 AM
Hi John, this is a beautiful composition with very nice lighting over the badlands. Love it!
Roman Kurywczak
05-07-2011, 09:33 AM
Hey John,
This is one tough location!!!....and you did very well keeping the balance in the image! My thoughts echo Daves......so very nicely done!
Robert Amoruso
05-07-2011, 06:32 PM
I agree with the above comments John. Well done for the reasons mentioned.
John Ippolito
05-08-2011, 01:39 AM
Thanks Dave, Kaushik, Dan, Rachel, Andrew, Roman, and Robert for your comments, suggestions, and encouragement. Always appreciated! Kaushik, I am going to give the B&W a try.
It is a challenging place to get enough topography in the frame, without getting "too" much in.
Andrew Aveley
05-09-2011, 03:44 AM
superb composition and detail in the whole frame :c3:
Morkel Erasmus
05-10-2011, 03:39 PM
just love the texture, detail, colour and overall composition here John! makes me want to be there!
D. Robert Franz
06-02-2011, 03:50 PM
Excellent sense of depth in this image. You've captured 5 distiinct planes of interest giving the image deep perspective. The curving FG plane also leads your eye to the feature plane (your striated hills) A BG plane of more hills adds more interest You then finish with a horizon plane, and your cloud plane of interest. Just a bit of blue sky showing through the clouds would have been perfect. I may have liked a bit more of you FG plane showing and have it a bit further right in your comp... Well done!
Mitchell Krog
06-17-2011, 05:42 PM
Awesome John, landscapes like this are not the easiest places to compose, but you nailed it for me.
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